Collaboration is the key feature as and when organizations merge or grow. From the perspective of Educational domain, collaboration is a high priority issue. Through this many universities can share their library and research catalogues which provide invaluable value to the university. The issue to be consideration is how safe the collaboration is. In other words how can organizations provide secure cross domain access? The simple solution to have multiple id-passwords is extremely painstaking to implement and maintain. Rather every organization likes to have a single sign-on feature that ensures access across domains. Oracle Access Manager, product from Fusion Middleware provides Cross Domain Single Sign-On.

Cross Domain Single Sign-on although provides Single Sign-On is one of the most important features in every organization which has multiple benefits. Providing single sign-on does not always provide compliance. Combined with Oracle Access Manager and Amerindias’ custom Policy Enforcement Point (PEP), compartmentalization of SingleSign-On zones can be created and is very effective in providing Cross Domain Single Sign-On adhering to access and compliance policies. The Policy Enforcement points can be obtained from the user identity store.

As enterprises successfully gain control over their access management requirements, more are looking to centralize management of fine-grained authorization policies embedded within the applications themselves. New standards help make this feasible across applications and vendor environments. Oracle Fine-Grained Authorization provides centralized, standards-based policy management and distributed policy enforcement across the enterprise environment based on the Extensible Access Control Markup Language, or XACML, standard. The benefits of centralizing policy management include improved ease of administration, consistent policy enforcement and improved compliance.